1947 was the year that debris containing titanium nickel alloy fell from the sky over New Mexico

Battelle Memorial Institute was in charge of the investigation.

Later BMI worked on Project Blue Book.

When MH370 disappeared you may recall that an autonomous underwater vehicle was used to search for it. Phoenix belongs to a company owned by BMI.

"Battelle underwater robot to aid in search for MH370 | NBC4

Manufactured by Battelle's Bluefin Robotics, the U.S. Navy has requested an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. The Bluefin AUV can operate up to nearly three miles underwater, detect debris on the ocean floor and send details back up to the surface. It is described as a “workhorse” and can remain operational underwater for more than 24 hours at a time."

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This leads us to nitinol - memory metal.


This link was down for me so this is Google's cache of [link to www.heraldtribune.com] It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 26 Sep 2017 23:03:54 GMT.


At issue are some missing reports from Battelle’s study of a nickel/titanium alloy called Nitinol, renowed for its resilience as a “memory metal.” Contracted by the U.S. Air Force to assess and exploit its compelling properties in the late 1940s, Battelle participates in or manages six national laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy, including Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore, and Brookhaven.

The problem is, neither Battelle nor the USAF can produce copies of what the scientific literature refers to as the “Second Progress Report on Contract AF33 (038)-3736.” Bragalia suspects that’s because the data is still highly classified due to its source — a flying disc that crashed outside Roswell, N.M., in 1947.

“Personal testimony is one thing,” says Bragalia, whose research skills have been polished by his business as an executive-search consultant. “But when you start talking about documents and the history of science, unlike testimonials, their provenance is not questioned.”


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MH370 had Rolls Royce engine. Rolls Royce obtained a patent in 2006 for using nitinol in the fan exhaust for its jet engines.

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Is this where they got the plot to Donnie Darko?